Sacred Symbols, Episode 385 | Old-Fashioned Superstitions I Find Too Hard to Break
Added 2025-11-14 17:00:21 +0000 UTCPlayStation 5 has officially turned five, giving us much to reflect upon. Has the console lived up to its potential, left folks disappointed, or fallen somewhere in between? We get into that -- alongside new Sony financials that paint an admittedly rosy picture -- before getting into the meat of our show. Two new Sony-aligned games have been revealed, but they've left many potential players puzzled, as neither offering is actually on PlayStation hardware. For starters, NCSoft's long-rumored Horizon MMO is real. It's called Steel Frontiers and it actually looks really nice. But it's only on PC and mobile. Meanwhile, a new Ratchet & Clank game has also been showcased, an online arena shooter called Ranger Rumble. But it too eschews PS5 and PS4, instead going straight to mobile platforms only. What gives? Why does Sony seem half-in on these off-platform initiatives, all the while neglecting their core audience that could give these respective titles the boost they need? Is it time for them to break old habits and embrace a more cogent multiplatform direction that centers PlayStation first and foremost? Plus: Sony's new 27" gaming monitor has people intrigued, Marvel Tokon: Fighting Spirits is getting another closed test, Elden Ring: Nightreign is receiving some much-needed DLC, and more. Then: Listener inquiries! What do we think of Valve's new Steam Machine PC-console hybrid? In any given game's menus, where should subtitle options be nestled: General, Audio, or Graphics? Does ARC Raiders success potentially benefit Marathon? Is Dustin wielding his power over Brad in unsavory ways?
Timestamps:
0:00:00 - Intro
0:28:20 - Keep your head up Cam
0:33:46 - Is this marriage destined for failure?
0:38:06 - Depressed?
0:46:26 - LSM power dynamics
0:53:35 - Ubisoft halts trading
0:57:08 - PlayStation 5 turns 5
1:13:41 - Red Dead Redemption is coming to PS5
1:16:41 - Horizon: Steel Frontiers revealed
1:34:24 - Ratchet & Clank: Ranger Rumble comes to mobile
1:52:17 - Sony Q2 financials
2:14:31 - New PlayStation PC monitor
2:23:34 - Cheaper PS5 coming to Japan
2:28:15 - New Marvel Tokon beta
2:31:17 - New Elden Ring: Nightreign expansion
2:33:52 - Todd Howard interview
2:37:27 - Mass Effect is still in development
2:37:56 - New PS+ game catalog games
2:41:21 - What We’ve Been Playing (Ghost of Yotei, PowerWash Simulator 2, Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted, Arc Raiders, Lumines Arise, Dispatch)
3:00:54 - Valve's new hardware
3:29:09 - Will Sony change their PC strategy?
3:34:44 - Gran Turismo 7
3:44:04 - Where should the subtitles option go?
3:46:53 - Will Marathon benefit from Arc Raiders?
3:58:46 - Eurogamer’s 2/5 review of Arc Raiders
Comments
Man your guys’ new game sounds so cool plot wise honestly. Selfishly I wish it was at least going for an SNES/ps1 era look. Call me a woke Gen Z twink but I don’t love the NES vibe especially with a world as cool as this because I’m just imagining how much more you could do mirroring Symphony of the Night.
Ryan
2025-11-21 12:50:16 +0000 UTCI actually think the steam deck is going to be the most destructive thing to the industry in a minute in very much threatening the PS5 why because it's just a better value proposition for your average consumer then a PS4 like if you're going to say that console exclusive aren't the main reason to get a PlayStation then why wouldn't I get a steam date games are going to be cheaper pretty much everything that comes out for the PlayStation is going to come out for steam except for maybe a few exclusives which Sony has proven will come down the line so if you're a bus driver and you got maybe 800 bucks to spend on a console and this is all you're going to play for the next five or so years why wouldn't you pick the console that's going to be the cheapest for those five years and still have everything you want to play with extra functionality
John D
2025-11-19 17:59:08 +0000 UTCOkay I got so much to say about your conversation in the steam deck I might up my patreon just so y'all can read it out but here's the gist of it
John D
2025-11-19 17:57:26 +0000 UTCThe SBMM (skill based match making) issue is you don’t always want to play at 100% when playing a multiplayer game.
Aaron
2025-11-19 07:25:34 +0000 UTC
